Quotes About Watchdogs

Most people find it counterintuitive that a system motivated exclusively by greed and cutthroat competition would bring the greatest benefits to the greatest number of people. We now see that there is a good reason people find this claim counterintuitive: it is false. Abuses are only overcome when governments, multinational agencies, labor groups, consumer advocates, and a well-organized system of checks and balances all serve as watchdogs over market competition.

Special counsel Theodore Sorensen and the president's brother Bobby were designated "intellectual watchdogs," whose job was to "pursue relentlessly every bone of contention in order to prevent errors arising from too superficial an analysis of the issues," Janis noted.

The history of government regulation of food safety is one of government watchdogs chasing the horse after it's out of the barn.

And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know.

Congress has the constitutional authority to investigate the other agencies of government. We are the watchdogs of the taxpayer's money, and we have the right to know how that money is being spent and to conduct oversight over the government.

Who shall guard the guardians? Who shall see that the guardians commit no offenses?

Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.

The mind has many watchdogs; sometimes they bark unnecessarily, but a wise man never ignores their warning.

There is no conservative party left in Washington. Conservative thinkers and writers who were to be the watchdogs of orthodoxy have been as vigilant in policing party deviations from principle as was Cardinal Law in collaring the predator-priests of the Boston archdiocese.

or too marginal and obscure to escape the censure of UCV and UDC watchdogs.

Unions should not be lapdogs to a political party, they should be watchdogs for their members' interests.

You must excuse my gruff conduct," the watchdog said, after they'd been driving for some time, "but you see it's traditional for watchdogs to be ferocious.

He would never be able to untangle his holdings and interests—including big investments in the Middle East—in a way that would satisfy ethics watchdogs.

Labradors [are] lousy watchdogs. They usually bark when there is a stranger about, but it is an expression of unmitigated joy at the chance to meet somebody new, not a warning.